Janet Buell
Auteur van Sail Away, Little Boat (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
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- 13
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- 164
- Populariteit
- #129,117
- Waardering
- 4.5
- Besprekingen
- 8
- ISBNs
- 20
Using plain language, the author does an outstanding job of explaining how bogs work to preserve human bodies. She then draws the reader in with a murder mystery and the discovery of some body parts!
From there it is one scientific team after another attempting to discover the 'Lindow' Man's secrets. For example, there are phytoarchaeologists who study the stomach and intestine contents of the dead to help determine the time of year the person died. If there is fruit present, they can say with fair certainty what time of year that person died based on when that fruit ripens.
The author helps explain the scientific method by introducing the exhaustive detective work that must be done in order to solve the mystery.
Part history, part science, this is a good mentor text for elementary kids learning to think critically about the world around them. The book also shows that things are not always what they seem, so question everything!… (meer)